Scientific Revolution Enlightenment The Big Picture

The Beginning Before revolution people relied on the works of Aristotle and The Bible for their beliefs in the natural world During the SR people re-examined those beliefs and began to rely on reason for their info

Heliocentric Theory Copernicus challenged the Geocentric theory of the solar system

Johannes Kepler Student of Copernicus proved mathematically that the sun is the center and planets have elliptical orbit

Galileo Discovered laws of motion (Think feather and hammer on the moon)

Bacon Was a proponent of experimental method (empiricism) believed scientist should experiment then draw conclusions

Descartes Father of analytical geometry relied on mathematics and reason to prove theories Descartes and Bacon ideas lead to modern scientific method

The Enlightenment The enlightenment is applying the ideas of the Scientific Method to society Must use reason to solve societies problems

Locke People are born with natural rights life, liberty, and property

Hobbes Absolute monarchy stops people from each others selfishness Social Contract people hand over certain liberties and gain law and order

Rousseau Believed in direct democracy only a democracy created by the general will of society was a good government

Montesquieu Separation of power only power can check power

Exit Quiz What is the theory that states the universe revolves around the earth? Who proved mathematically Copernicus’ theory? Which scientist discovered the Laws of Motion? What is Montesquieu’s theory on government power? Name Locke’s “Natural Rights”

The Enlightenment recap Ideas of the Scientific Revolution are applied to society New Ideas of equality and how society should be structure Anti religious because church was part of old class system

Voltaire Supported freedom of speech and expression Believed that a monarch that respected the people’s rights was the best form of government

Diderot’s Encyclopedia Large set of books with articles Helped spread enlightenment ideas and knowledge in general

Enlightened Monarchs Some enlightenment thinkers believed the best government was one in which monarchs respected people’s rights Some monarchs changed some parts of their government but didn’t give up power Fredrick the Great, Joseph II, Catherine the Great

World History Textbook Assignment Read pages do the Section 3 Assessment #s3-8

Exit Quiz Name one enlightened Monarch What did Diderot write? What did Voltaire support?